The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-08
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1857.
TIE MILLLONAIREs' CANDIDATE
FOR PREAIDENT.

FOR PREsIDENT.
The Democrats may as well make
up their minds to the fact that John
Sherman is the man they will have to
encounter in 1888 as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency. The
leaders Of that party are fact unload
ing Blaine. They find 1t impossible to
carry him any longer. His day is
done. His manner and his methods
are Of the days Of prejudice and pas
sion and he cannot change. he has
never passed beyond the bloody shirt
period in our history. The people
have left him behind. A generation
OF men have come upon the field who
have no remembrance Of the war, its
CAUSES or its consequences. They
know nothing about it from actual ex-
perience and they are tired reading
about II and will not willing
" help to keep its memories
alive. The Republicans are at last
convinced OF this and will not
have anything to do with Blaine.
Recognizing his peculiar abilities, his
dash and brlllisncy, they followed him
&c they think quite as long as his mer-
lite deserve and will have no more OF
him. He ha, passed into the stage oil
reminiscence, and there no can
stay undisturbed 30 far as they
are concerned and indulge his
iancies, his malice and prejudice
in writing what he calls history. John
Sherman 10 to be the Republican
leader; nay, he 10 the Republican
leader. A man Of very great ability,
especially in finance and tariff mat
ters, he proposes, II his Nashville and
Cincinnati speeches are to be taken as
criteri0ns, to make the canvass on
distinct issues. The representative oil
the capitalists, he Is the advocate OF
liberal policy in appropriations as a
means Of disbursipg the money nc-
cumulated In the public Treasury by
a continuation Of the present tariff.
He would increase the pensions, al
ready an odious burden, and would
do anything and everything but re-
lease the people from taxes. He OPP
poses the payment Of the public
debt and iavors the accumulation OF
silver In the public Treasury, and ia
generally the eager anticipant OF the
wishes Of the moneyed classes al
against those OF the toiling masses
Mr.. Sherman believes In increasing
the burdens Of the people and 10
making money easier to the upper
crust Of society, 80 far as the
government can effect 1t. lie
would centralizs the power o.
the President and Congress, snt
as much as possible neutra ize thu
authority OF the Safes. His whole
tendency is toward strong govern
ment, and his inclinations are TOWARD
aristooratic ascendanCy. He has N
sympathy with the struggling million
whose toll has made the growth ant
greatness q the Republic possible, FL
looks mp, and not down, and Cannc
zoe the begrimed and aoxious face
Of the diggers and delivers in mine'
or the brawny men whom proteclio
has ground into conditions rs hopelet
as that out Of which the woIkingme
OF Europe are struggling to emerR
This is the statesman, the man OF II
millcnairGs, not the millions, who
the Republicans are in 1888 to presel
for the suflrsges Of the people. To d
feat him ought TO be an easy matter
the Democrats, especially with a ma
like Olevela I'd, who is the declare
sud positive friend Of the masses, wi
looks down from his lofty pla,
at the head Of the Republi
and with heart full OF syI
party and commiseration ior ii
working men aud women is anxio
to find way to help them, to anne
orate their harder lot in life, to eleva
and lift them up out OF the bedrs
Cling drudgery that tends to ma
than the ready tools Of anarchy al
socialism, He knows the struggle
freedom 10 an eternal battle, that t
selfish cupidity of men riding oy
their own oonscienc,s rides over I
rights OF others, aud that 1t is only
the eternal vigilance that is the pr
OF liberty that the inalienable rlgl
OF mankind can be saved from I
successive waves Of rapAcity. We
Cept the issue, then; we accept
gauge Of battle thrown to us by
Republicans, and we recognize Jo
Sherman as their leader, their car
date for the Presidency. A danger
man to the rights and liberties Of
people; cold, hard and inhexible,
eau easily be defeated by Clevela
tho man Of the people and from
people, whose sympathies are br
and human, and who does not bell
that the Declaration Of Independe
Is a dead letter, or that constltut
only bind fools and idiots.
THG INTERSTATE COnMISsI
ERs,
In their deEire TO shield ths Soutl